Leesburg, Florida Leesburg, Florida City of Leesburg Leesburg City Hall Leesburg City Hall Location in Lake County and the state of Florida Location in Lake County and the state of Florida Leesburg is a town/city in Lake County, Florida, United States.
Enumeration Bureau was 19,086. Leesburg is positioned in central Florida, between Lake Harris and Lake Griffin, at the head of the Oklawaha River system.
Leesburg is the home of Lake-Sumter State College (LSSC) with campuses also in Clermont, Florida and Sumterville.
The town/city of Leesburg was first incorporated in 1875, and was the governmental center of county of Sumter County for a time until Lake County was formed in 1887.
In the early 20th century, Leesburg was an meaningful center for watermelon production.
In 1930, Leesburg held its first Watermelon Festival, an annual tradition that would last until watermelon manufacturing in the region dwindled to the point that watermelons for the last festival in 1957 had to be brought in from outside the area.
Lake Square Mall, now known as Via - Port, the city's primary shopping mall, opened in 1980.
The citrus trade was the principal company in Leesburg for many years, until devastating freezes in December 1983 and February 1985 persuaded growers to move their groves further down the Florida peninsula.
In 1997, Leesburg Bikefest started.
Today, most of Leesburg's expansion and economic evolution is the result of the increasing popularity of the region as a retirement destination and the rapid expansion of close-by Orlando.
In 2011 and 2017, the Leesburg High School boys basketball team won the 4 - A state championship.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.4 square miles (63 km2), of which 18.7 square miles (48 km2) is territory and 5.8 square miles (15 km2) (23.65%) is water.
Several primary highways pass through Leesburg, including U.S.
Florida's Turnpike passes just to the south and west of Leesburg.
Leesburg was on the leg of the Dixie Highway.
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,956 citizens , 6,775 homeholds, and 4,078 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 26.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $25,988, and the median income for a family was $33,250.
Leesburg High School Lake County Schools operates enhance major and secondary schools: Leesburg High School Leesburg Elementary School Leesburg Elementary School Louis Cardinals. In 1936, the town/city assembled the Ballpark at Venetian Gardens, which was used by a several minor league baseball clubs that played in the Florida State League from 1937-1968.
The town/city won league titles in 1941 and 1946. Since 2007, the town/city has been the home of the Leesburg Lightning, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball team in the Florida Collegiate Summer League.
During the 1920s, sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who had a residence in Leesburg, performed shooting exhibitions at Cooke Field.
Army and was born in Mahilyow, Belarus, retired to Leesburg in 1977, where he lived until his death.
Bill Mc - Bride, former candidate for Florida Governor, husband of former Florida CFO Alex Sink, interval up in Leesburg.
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